monit – Manage the state of a program monitored via Monit

Synopsis

• Manage the state of a program monitored via Monit

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name - / required		The name of the monit program/process to manage
state - / required	Choices: present started stopped restarted monitored unmonitored reloaded	The state of service
timeout -	Default: 300	If there are pending actions for the service monitored by monit, then Ansible will check for up to this many seconds to verify the requested action has been performed. Ansible will sleep for five seconds between each check.

Examples

# Manage the state of program "httpd" to be in "started" state.
- monit:
    name: httpd
    state: started

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Darryl Stoflet (@dstoflet)

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